Pycnopygius ixoides cinereifrons Salomonsen, 1966

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 119-120

Pycnopygius ixoides cinereifrons Salomonsen

Pycnopygius ixoides cinereifrons Salomonsen, 1966a: 8 (two miles below junction of Black and Palmer rivers, 100 meters altitude, British Papua (western division), southern New Guinea).

Now Pycnopygius ixoides ixoides ( Salvadori, 1878) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 401, Coates, 1990: 273, Dickinson, 2003: 436, and Higgins et al., 2008: 583–584.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 428278 , adult male, collected 2 miles below junction of Black and Palmer rivers, 100 m, 05.45S, 141.45E (PNG, 1984), Western Province, Papua New Guinea, on 13 July 1936, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and G.H.H. Tate on the 1936–1937 Archbold Expedition (no. 4504).

COMMENTS: Salomonsen gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and the range as southern New Guinea from the Mimika River eastward to the upper Fly River. Paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 696678 , male, Paramau, Mimika River, 14 September 1910, by C.B. Grant ; AMNH 428279–428286 , four males and four females, 2–5 miles below junction of Black and Palmer rivers, 80–100 m, May and July 1936 .

The specimens collected at the junction of the Black and Palmer rivers were originally identified as Pycnopygius ixoides ixoides by Rand (1942a: 363–364). Coates (1990: 273) synonymized cinereifrons with nominate ixoides ; Dickinson (2003: 436) recognized it, and Higgins et al. (2008: 583) tentatively recognized it.